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by iqster 16y ago
Ah ... I remember the good old days when you just had to be careful about big-endian/little-endian when doing bit twiddling :)
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Career in IT pays off for some (Thought it was funny)(cnn.com)
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by iqster 16y ago
I don't think the article misleads on the point you are contending with. I'm not from India but do know quite a few very talented Indians in the US who are stuck with their present employment because of visa BS. The process for permanent re
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by iqster 16y ago
The article mentions the phrase "when he didn't win the visa lottery...". Just to give people some context ... a few years ago, so many people applied for the H1 visa, that the visa quota finished on the very first day. I know a student who
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by iqster 16y ago
Damnit ... I really wanted to go but 1599 on my own dime was a bit too steep. I thought I'd sleep on it but it is like they say: you snooze you lose. Oh well .. I managed to go to PyCon and will hopefully be at Google IO.
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by iqster 16y ago
Do you mean crashes are the best time? During bubbles everything gets more expensive. I agree that a bubble doesn't mean all startups with autofail. I would like to learn from the past and understand what worked.
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by iqster 16y ago
Your last sentence is very astute, and resonates with me personally. I thought valuations were insane in the late 90s but ultimately gave in. I think that was less than 6 months before the crash! Regarding exponential growth. We need to thi
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by iqster 16y ago
One of the arguments I've heard that state that things are different this time around goes like this: it is far less capital intensive to do a startup now rather than in the late 90s because of open source software stacks and cloud computin
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by iqster 16y ago
"But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.": Love this line!
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by iqster 16y ago
I'm sorry I don't understand what the big deal is here. I can use my iPhone to steer a Battlecruiser if: 1) The battlecruiser had a clear API that others could hook into it 2) The API is Internet accessible 3) My iPhone has Internet access
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by iqster 16y ago
Have you tried Google Earth? You can create a KML file with hundreds of place-markers or routes connecting points. I've had good experience with this on the desktop. Don't have a suggestion for mobile, I'm afraid.
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by iqster 16y ago
Are you asking for the shortest route that covers all the locations you want to visit? If so, it is computationally very hard to deal with 100+ locations and come up with an exact solution. This is known as the Traveling Salesman (err. Sale
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by iqster 16y ago
I did not realize that! I was just reading some of his old blog posts this morning. He's pretty impressive. http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/octopus.html
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by iqster 16y ago
You're right in that there are more learning resources - ebooks and lectures galore! However, the complexity of software systems has increased quite a bit too. This complexity, and the ensuing layers of abstraction are enemies to learning I
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by iqster 16y ago
You've got it all wrong ... best thing thing you can hear as an entrepreneur: I'm willing to invest however much you want at a 100 billion dollar valuation :-p
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by iqster 16y ago
Thank you for posting this article! As an academic, this really touched me. I'm impressed by this guy's humility. For me personally, the years of misery caused by the way our society does tenure and funding is not worth enduring .. especial
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by iqster 16y ago
Google's app engine and Amazon's EC2 both offer free tiers. Windows Azure might offer a free tier too. I think for App engine, you might not need a credit card number. My suggestion is don't waste cash on domain names and physical books. Yo
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by iqster 16y ago
The title sucks but the article describes some very real problems. In the places I've lived in the US, public transit is a bad joke. I'm originally from T.O. and didn't appreciate the TTC while I was there. It has problems (especially if yo
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by iqster 16y ago
I thought this was funny/sad too. I spend approx 2.5 hours a day commuting. Clearly, I have found something in my schedule that needs to be cut.
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by iqster 16y ago
I'm at pycon and really enjoyed this keynote yesterday. The numbers he gave were amazing. More files shared per day than tweets on Twitter! 1 million files every 15 minutes.
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by iqster 16y ago
I'm not affiliated with YC and these are just my thoughts: Ideas are worth less than a dime a dozen. Being successful comes down to execution. In my experience, if an idea is really good, a number of people will come up with it at around th
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by iqster 16y ago
For folks in SF, noisebridge has a similar "space program" (high altitude photographs via a balloon). They are very friendly people ... I wish I still lived in the Bay area and could do outdoorsy stuff in the Winter. link: http://laughings
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by iqster 16y ago
Labeling this "burn-out" might be a bit harsh. The guy was quite productive ... although he did things in a new field. This kind of change is sometimes very important for a person's mind. I recall reading that Jim Clark (of Netscape) spent
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by iqster 16y ago
As someone who has published papers in ACM and IEEE conferences, I have had similar feelings to that in the article. The thing is ... conferences (the unpaid Program Committees) are required for curation. There are too many papers published
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by iqster 16y ago
So .. consider forigners who come to your country ... they face barriers of language, customs, etc. If your mom is multi-lingual (or can work with a translator), she could build a speciality service where she helps people of a specific set
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by iqster 16y ago
Jorge ... thanks for your note. And I want to thank Foursquare for organizing the event. You guys didn't charge to let people in (unlike some other events), provided free food the entire day and were very helpful in answering questions. My
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Ask HN: Does anyone actually code at a hackathon?
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by iqster 16y ago
I think it is about the developer/apps/market place "ecosystem". Elop mentioned that in the burning platform memo. I'd give Microsoft some credit in their developer relationship machine that's already in place. The deal makes sense to me in
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by iqster 16y ago
Fair enough ... I have a PhD in CS (recent). I make it a point to warn people it is not the good life profs and stupid articles make it out to be.
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by iqster 16y ago
Yes ... us scientists have an awesome life. We get to implant cameras in the backs of our head ( http://gothamist.com/2010/12/03/video_photos_nyu_prof_instal... ). Truly the good life!!

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